John Collier (1850-1934 ) was a British writer and painter in the Pre-Raphaelite and Classicist style. He was one of the most prominent portrait painters of his generation. He spoke On the idea of God: "People may claim without much exaggeration that the belief in God is universal. They omit to add that superstition, often of the most degraded kind, is just as universal."
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